Sanjeev: What are your thoughts about the cheap financial leverage available to startups today?
Such was the experience in an earlier application of financial leverage the South African divestment campaign.
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Such was the experience in an earlier application of financial leverage -- the South African divestment campaign.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Divest Terror's Premise and Objectives
Interest-bearing debt was JPY 1.2 trillion, relatively high financial leverage for a manufacturing company with high operating leverage.
They have no financial leverage, but they are citizens of the United States no more but no less than anyone else.
Rather than financial leverage, the new generation of leaders will need to become masters of capability leverage, finding and mobilizing talent anywhere.
We're sitting on lots of cash and little debt and can use financial leverage to fatten up things we think are attractive.
Traditionally, the federal government has used its financial leverage to cajole the provinces to apply the principles of the Canada Health Act.
But with the French balking that would make it very difficult for the U.S. to have any kind of financial leverage over Iran.
Combining this with their zeal for yield (and plentiful liquidity to finance it) led to immense speculation that was implemented by gigantic financial leverage.
Strong growth on local turf has given DeNA the financial leverage to go on an aggressive buying spree here in the U.S. this year.
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Now, common sense suggests that lower union numbership and weaker union financial leverage will make it easier for private and public schools to fire underperforming instructors.
Geithner attributed the strength of the U.S. banks, including the largest ones, to sustainable levels of capital and financial leverage as well as stable funding sources.
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If past experience is a guide, a sustainable rally will ultimately be accompanied by a renewed preference for growth versus dividends and less aversion to financial leverage.
The Age of Deleveraging forecasts a similar decade, at least quite a few years, of slow growth and deflation as financial leverage and other excesses of past decades are worked off.
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Security: It comes at a time when the West should be using its economic and financial leverage to press for genuine, fundamental reforms in the Soviet system, not bailing out that system.
Second, and most important, however, is that actual deflation (where money becomes increasingly valuable with time) is impractical in an economy possessing as much monetary and financial leverage as the one we have today.
Overspeculation in real estate construction, specifically commercial properties in major markets like New York, Los Angeles and Dallas were ominous precursors of excessive financial leverage employed by operators, abetted by the reserve city banking community.
Now these aging and sometimes decrepit institutions are in need of new talent and technology, and they lack the financial leverage to cope with malpractice and other costs that are rising faster than government reimbursements.
Wahlstrom says the company meets the requirements for a leveraged buyout or management buyout, chiefly positive free cash flow and low financial leverage, and says it is "more likely than not" that a buyout will happen.
This is the moment for the U.S. to use its financial leverage to push for a strategic vision in the region which incorporates reforms in democracy, respect for human rights, rule of law, transparency and accountability.
Toward that end, a grassroots campaign will be mounted to pressure leading institutional investors, asset managers and universities to use their financial leverage to divest the stock of any publicly traded company doing business in terrorist-sponsoring states.
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Full transparency and data disclosure of these commercial and credit transactions are now required so that the Western democracies can coordinate the selective use of economic and financial leverage to press for real reform and transformation of the East bloc societies to a path of democracy and free markets.
With new financial regulation, leverage is now below 15 to 1 and declines further as Volcker-inspired regulation comes into play next couple of years.
It would be regulated by the SEC and be dependent on its own performance and not a bunch of financial activities with leverage that few can understand, much less put a dollar value on.
The Bush Administration evidently failed to utilize the NATO summit -- as it was urged to do two weeks ago by the United States Senate -- as a forum for engaging America's allies in a new, more coherent strategy, one designed to exploit the West's economic, financial and technological leverage so as to transform fundamentally and irreversibly the Soviet threat.
Bear markets brought on by financial catastrophe in the form of fraud, leverage and greed are the financial markets version of a haunted house.
Financial regulators must look beyond the leverage within individual institutions to the stability of complex financial systems as a whole.
Africa presents Wall Street a powerful challenge to demonstrate successful leverage of financial strength in a manner befitting our humanity.
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Perhaps AIG is the most extreme example of leverage as financial hari-kari.
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